A REGENCY BROWN OAK COMMODE STOOL

BY GEORGE BULLOCK, CIRCA 1817

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A REGENCY BROWN OAK COMMODE STOOL
By George Bullock, circa 1817
The rectangular hinged lid with four circular reeded finials enclosing a wooden seat and ceramic bowl, the sides with simulated panelling, on turned baluster legs, with a tag PA/022 and 7423/330
21¼in. (54cm.) high, 22in. (56cm.) wide, 18½in. (47cm.) deep

來源

One of seven 'night Stools' supplied by George Bullock in 1817 to Matthew Robinson Boulton (d.1842) for Tew Park, Oxfordshire.
Thence by descent at Tew to Major Eustace Robb and sold by his Executors, Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 282.
Anon.sale, Christie's London, 8 October 1987, lot 46.
The Property of Mr. Edward Sarofim, sold Christie's London, 16 November 1995, lot 102 (£2,760).

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LITERATURE FOR THIS SUITE:
C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no.28.
M. Levy, 'George Bullock, A Regency Cabinet-Maker Reassessed', The Magazine Antiques, June 1988, p.1398, pl.VIII.

拍品專文

This bedroom-apartment close-stool, enriched with molded panels in holly, is designed by George Bullock (d. 1818), cabinet-maker of 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, and conceived in the manner of a Grecian cippus chest with inverted palm-bulb feet and reeded-paterae acroteria. It formed part of the bedroom furnishings commissisoned in 1816 for the 'Elizabethan' mansion at Tew Park, Oxfordshire by Matthew Boulton, and was invoiced in 1817 with six other 'Night Stools', each costing £14.10s. They were designed en suite with an oak panelled bed with 'Holly mouldings and patteras' and 'damask pattern chintz' upholstery (Christie's house sale at Tew Park, 27-29 May 1987, lot 247). A Bullock bed with related features was illustrated in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, November 1816 (series 11, vol 2 pl. 26), where it was praised for its 'tasteful simplicity'.

Its design relates to a pattern invented by Bullock in November 1815 as part of the furnishings executed under the direction of George, Prince Regent, later King George IV for the Emperor Napoleon's residence on St. Helena (C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, p. 93, fig. 40). Its style might also indicate the influence of the architect Richard Bridgens, who is credited with the design of the Grecian Rooms at the Piccadilly 'Museum' established in 1810 by George's brother William Bullock (C. Wainwright et al., op.cit., p.23). It also reflects the 'Baronial Magnificence' of George Bullock's furnishings introduced at this time at Speke Hall, Lancashire, possibly while working in partnership with the architect Joseph M. Gandy (d. 1843) (C. Wainwright et. al., ibid., p. 61-4).

A companion commode-stool was acquired from Tew by the Walker Art Gallery, Merseyside.